How does multicultural education reflect responsive teaching to help meet the academic needs of diverse student populations?

Responsive teaching is what is needed when dealing with multicultural education. Not only is it responsive teaching, but a framework that is built around the principles of responsive teaching and instilling self-discovery. To be able to work with a student and going in and out of a lesson plan, helping people with their individual needs is absolutely necessary. This of course has a second name, scaffolding, as you are starting the discussion and then building on it for each individual student. When you are being a responsive teacher, you are viewing the world in a way other than how you need to see it, but the way that the world treats your students and how the community, family and culture affect them. Of course to do this, getting to know a family, their culture and their language is a great way to be able to be responsive in a fashion, but it is a challenge, because many families may have problems coming to meetings, filling out papers or being interactive, due to language barriers. This is another area where being a responsive teacher in a multicultural classroom is incredibly important, as you must adapt to the situation.

I found this image online when we were starting the course and I believe it is a great reference point, but does it encompass everything? Of course not, but it is a great place to start.